Let get this right, you say Batiatus treated his slaves good?
Let me think he screwed Spartacus over by killing his wife , he murked Barca , thought he was a big dog and let Varro get killed over by that little kid for nothing his pops back Solonius in the end, lets go back to gods of the arena even after that ended with all his ambitions his house was dead broke until Spartacus came thru. Batiatus was good for quotes and yes some of his schemes worked, but do you really think they work on Caesar or Marcus or any real roman with power?